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Little Known Facts – by Desmond Kelly Star of eLanka As we go through life, we sometimes seem to “miss” certain important events that either took place, or were taking place right below our noses. The reasons for this were wide & varied. Quite possibly, we were too young to worry about “World Events”, especially in Lanka, there were far more fascinating things to do, like spending our weekends at the glorious beaches, having a thosai-feed at the “Saraswathi-Lodge”, or going to the “Majestic Theatre” to see “pictures” starring people such as Robert Taylor & Ava Gardner, sitting in the ” Gallery-seats”, craning our necks upward as the “bugs” kept biting the bottoms of our thighs, because most of us guys wore “shorts” at the time. Another reason for missing World news, apart from what was “shown” on the theatre-screen before the film came on(after the interval), was the fact ...